[1920, June, no earlier than June 22]

1) Berlin has long been in operation... with Moscow.
2) We have invented [one], operates at 400 versts, ordered for 2000 [versts].

Printed from a typescript copy

1 Written on a telegram from I. S. Unshlikht from Smolensk reporting that English newspapers had published information about an invented telephone operating at 350 English miles; with a request to give instructions to our representative in London to acquire several devices, in view of the fact that this invention is of great interest.

I. S. Unshlikht — party member since 1900. After the October Socialist Revolution — engaged in responsible military and Soviet work, was a member of the Revolutionary War Council of the Western Front, from April 1921 to autumn 1923 — Deputy Chairman of the VChK, then the GPU.

NOTE TO L. M. KARAKHAN
[1920, after June 24]

To Karakhan

I request

in cipher

to Krasin:

Lenin asks to transport his belongings from Paris to London to you. Carefully. Better slowly, but more carefully.

1 Written on a telegram from L. B. Krasin, who asked the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin to inform Lenin that there was a possibility to transport Lenin's party and personal archive from Paris to London; Krasin asked how to proceed. There is no data on the execution of Lenin's request for 1920.

In 1923, Lenin's party and personal archive was transported from Paris and handed over to N. K. Krupskaya at the Institute of V. I. Lenin. It is possible that this concerns the same archive.

NOTE TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMINTERN

To the Executive Committee of the III International.

I fully

support this¹.

26/VI [1920] Lenin

1 The notation was made on a letter from a figure in the American workers' movement, secretary-treasurer of the committee for the defense of the organization "Industrial Workers of the World," W. Haywood, to Dutch communist engineer S. Yu. Rutgers with a request to appeal to the Soviet government for assistance to the committee to provide support to political prisoners from the organization "Industrial Workers of the World."

DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY
[July 4, 1920]

Remind me 7/VII at the Politburo office.

1 The resolution was written on a report note from G. V. Chicherin to V. I. Lenin concerning the authorized representative of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee in Vladivostok V. D. Vilensky (Sibiryakov). Vilensky was accused by the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of independent actions, acting on behalf of the RSFSR without coordination with the center, and of his disregard for the Far Eastern Republic.

NOTE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF RAILWAYS
[5. VII. 1920]

To the People's Commissariat of Railways

To the Head of the Auto Department

I request that you issue to driver Gilya for the automobiles serving the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars:

tires 920 X 120 — 12 units
tubes 920 X 120 — 11 »

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from a typescript text signed by V. I. Lenin

1 The document contains resolutions from workers of the economic section of the People's Commissariat of Railways: "Eco. Sec. approves issuing mutually 4 tires 920 X 120" and "E. Div. for issuing 2 tires 920 X 120 mutually." "... L. P. issue whatever there is immediately."

S. K. Gilya — party member since 1930. From 1917 to 1924 — driver of V. I. Lenin.

NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKII
[1920, July 7]

1) I cannot accept this.
2) I agree to remove Bokii if there is a candidate².

1 Written on a note from N. N. Krestinskii, Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b), apparently at a Politburo session during discussion of the composition of the Turkestan Commission, with a request to replace G. I. Bokii, member of the Turkestan Commission, with another comrade, reporting that the Chairman of the Turkestan CEC T. R. Ryskulov, Khodzhayev, and Ivanov, who are leaving in a day, are asking Lenin to receive them.

G. I. Bokii — party member since 1900. After the October Socialist Revolution — Secretary of the Petrograd Committee of the RCP(b).

* There is a response from Krestinskii proposing a number of candidates instead of Bokii. Against each name Lenin placed signs: +, —, ?.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
[1920, July, after the 12th]

Comrade Chicherin! Please forward to Comrade Krestinskii for the Chekists.

Lenin

1 The note was written on a letter from M. G. Vronsky, authorized representative of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR for matters concerning prisoners of war in Austria, of July 12, 1920 from Berlin, reporting his departure to Vienna, with a request if possible to use him for work in Germany, since he could be of greater service there; the letter also raised the question of the lack of coordination in decisions and actions between People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin, RSFSR Plenipotentiary in Estonia I. E. Gukovsky, People's Commissar of Foreign Trade L. B. Krasin, and worker of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs V. L. Kopp concerning the RSFSR's purchases of goods abroad.

ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, AND NOTES
ON G. V. CHICHERIN'S RADIO-TELEGRAM
TO D. CURZON
[No earlier than July 12 — no later than July 17, 1920]

...In the matter of reconciliation with Poland, the Soviet government considers it necessary to take into account, besides the interests and aspirations of the Russian working masses, only the interests and aspirations of the Polish working masses, and therefore considers possible the achievement of peace with Poland only through direct negotiations with the Polish Government of Poland...

...The Soviet government cannot fail to take into account the fact that this boundary was established by the Supreme Council in a certain part under the pressure of counter-revolutionary Russian elements, adherents of the fallen old order of the bourgeoisie and landowners, and that, for example in the Kholm region, the decision on this question by the Supreme Council plainly reflected the influence of these counter-revolutionary elements and followed in the footsteps of the anti-Polish policy of Tsarism and imperialist Great Russian bourgeoisie on this question. Soviet Russia is prepared in general, regarding the conditions of peace, the more readily to meet the interests and wishes of the Polish state, the further the Polish people go in their internal life along such a path as will create a firm foundation for genuine fraternal relations among the working peoples of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Lithuania, and will create guarantees that Poland will cease to be an instrument of attacks and intrigues against the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia and other nations*.

Printed from a typescript text corrected by V. I. Lenin

1 The note of the Government of the RSFSR to the Government of Great Britain, into which V. I. Lenin introduced corrections, was published on July 18, 1920 in the newspaper "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee," no. 157; in 1959 it was included in the book "Documents of the Foreign Policy of the USSR," vol. III.

George Nathaniel Curzon — English reactionary statesman and diplomat. From 1919 to 1924 — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain. Was one of the principal organizers of foreign military intervention against Soviet Russia.